Mick Hartley

The unparalleled suffering and persecution of the trans community is regularly emphasised by gender activists, despite the lack of any supporting evidence. In Norway they're taking it to a new level, as Shay Woulahan reports in Reduxx:

A vigil is being held in Norway for trans-identified persons murdered in gender-identity based hate crimes despite the fact no such murders have been recorded in the country in over 10 years.

“Transminnedagen” will take place on November 20, and be observed by a march in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. According to the Facebook Events page, the vigil is intended to “remember all trans people who have been killed in the past year, and highlight the violence and discrimination trans people experience in Norway.”

The event is being sponsored by five different Norwegian activist groups, including the Norwegian Organization for Sexual and Gender Diversity (FRI – foreningen for kjønns- og seksualitetsmangfold), which has been influential in directing Government policy.

FRI, which originally focused on advancing the rights of the gay and lesbian community, shifted its campaigning towards destigmatizing fetishes as it began to take up the cause of transsexual lobbying.

Remind you of anyone? Stonewall UK, perhaps?

Since news of the Trans Day of Remembrance has spread, many Norwegian women’s rights advocates have pointed out that no trans-identified people have been murdered in the country on the basis of their gender identity in over 10 years.

Plenty of women have been murdered and continue to be murdered, of course: but that's just business as usual, and nothing to make a fuss about. 

According to Tansrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide (TvT), there has been no murders of trans-identified people in Norway since they began logging data in 2008. TvT is a trans activist-run collective which records the murders of trans-identified people worldwide. The project collects data through internet searches in collaboration with trans rights organizations.

Since news of the event has spread, trans activists involved in the organization of the vigil have scrambled to find examples to justify the event, pointing to a single case of a trans-identified person being murdered from 2019. But it has been established that the victim’s gender identity was not a factor in the crime….

Violence against women and girls is a pervasive issue in Norway. Seven women have been murdered by male partners in the country since April of this year. 166 women have been murdered by a partner since 2000, compared to only 16 men.

Despite the low rates of gender-identity based crimes in the country, Norwegian officials have brought in broad “transphobia” hate crime laws which have been used to target women’s rights campaigners.

For instance:

In December of 2021, a Norwegian man became the first to be convicted under the revised hate crime legislation after “misgendering” a trans-identified individual during a Facebook messenger conversation. The man was sentenced to 21 days in prison, suspended, and a 15,000NRK ($1,400 USD) fine.

Men dressed as women must be protected at all costs: actual women, not so much.